No. 19-6581

Javier Leon v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-11-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance material-variance methamphetamine-charge search-and-seizure
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-12-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether counsel's failure to subject the government's case to strict adversarial testing, by reason of a fickle, bare-bones 'mere presence' theory of defense, elements of 'consent to search' rule, constituted ineffective assistance of counsel

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : h we ae a . . ! i soo, weed -! o ' ~4 . CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION WHETHER COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO SUBJECT THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE TO STRICT ADVERSARIAL TESTING, BY REASON OF A FICKLE, BARE-BONES 'MERE PRESENCE' THEORY OF DEFENSE, ELEMENTS OF 'CONSENT TO SEARCH’ RULE, CONSTITUTED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. COUNSEL WAS ALSO GROSSLY . INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT ARGUING A FATAL MATERIAL VARIANCE OR CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT ON THE POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE CHARGE, WHERE THE ELEMENTS OF DISTRIBUTION WERE NOT PROVEN. : RECEIVED SEP 10 2019 ° OFFICE OF THE CLERK SUPREME COUST. U.S. ' d

Docket Entries

2019-12-16
Petition DENIED.
2019-11-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2019.
2019-11-19
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-08-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 12, 2019)

Attorneys

Javier Leon
Javier Leon — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent